Bite Me. // Carl Grimes

Four - "Walkers don't talk, but this one does."

"What the hell are we supposed to do with her?"

"I don't know she's a walker! We can't keep her locked up in here forever!"

It had been a shocking moment for all of them when Abraham, Michonne and Carl had discovered that Lydia was able to speak. No one knew what to do or what to say, nobody except for Carl Grimes who instantly took a step towards his dead girlfriend.

"Lydia?" He swallowed the lump in his throat, "Are you in there?"

'I'm here!' She screamed in her mind but only the name of his ex lover left her lips, "C-Carl."

Hours had passed by and nobody had any idea what to do with their "problem" that problem being a talking dead girl. The three of them waited until it was dark then took her inside Alexandria under the cover of darkness where they locked themselves and her in her old bedroom.

"Guys! We can't just let her go! She's- She's Lydia, Okay? She's still in there... I know she is."

"She's a walker Carl." Michonne sighed, "She's dead."

"Then why hasn't she tried to bite any of us yet?"

"That... I don't know."

"Can she say anything else besides your name?" Abraham asked the younger boy

Carl wasn't sure what to say, he was still hanging onto the hope that his girlfriend might still be trapped inside a walkers body but he knew that it might all be hopeless. She had to be in there, she just had to be.

"Maybe..." he spoke, "Lydia? Can you say something else for me? Anything else?"

But no matter how many times she opened her mouth and tried to force the words out, there was nothing. The only word she could speak was his name.

"Carl."

"Come on Lyds." The Grimes boy whispered, "You gotta say something else you have to prove that you're here, otherwise I don't know what might happen."

"W-Wh..." she tried

"Where? Are you trying to say where?" The red haired girl could only nod in response, "See she can say other stuff! It's Lydia, she's in there I'm telling you!"

"Carry on kid..." Abraham crouched down to meet the dead girl's eyes, "We're all listening."

"Carl... Wh-Where M-Mag..."

"Where's Maggie?" Carl questioned and once again his ex lover nodded

"Abraham..." Michonne spoke, "Go get Maggie, she has to see this, now."

For a few moments Carl and Lydia sat in silence, only able to stare at one another as Michonne watched from the other side of the room. It was all so unbelievable, no one had ever heard of a talking walker, perhaps it meant she was special, that she was still alive, or perhaps it made her even more dangerous.

"Carl." The Greene girl raised her hand and touched the bandages covering Carl's eye, it was the first time she'd seen him up close with the bandage, in fact it was the first time since she was bitten that she'd seen him without both eyes.

"Be careful Carl." Michonne cut in, "She might be Lydia but she's still a walker, she's dead."

"But how do we know she's dead?" He asked and almost as if on queue Lydia took Carl's hand in her own greying one and placed it over her chest right where her heart would be.

All of the blood immediately drained from Carl's face and he practically fell out of his seat when he felt the faintest of heartbeats thumping beneath his fingertips. She was alive.